Stephanie

“Forgiveness and mercy mean that, bit by bit, you begin to outshine the resentment.”
― Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

“There is thus a will to live without rejecting anything of life, which is the virtue I honor most in this world.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”
― Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

“Anything that leaves you more fearful, more isolated, more disconnected from other people, more full of judgment or self-hatred, is not of God, does not follow the Rule of Love—and you should stop doing it.”
― Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy